Goshen Student Starts Menstrual Product Drive for Food Pantry

According to Helping Women Period, the number of families in the USA needing assistance from food pantries continues to increase every year. The lack of access to menstrual health products for people who are either homeless or low-income is appalling. These necessary products are not covered by SNAP or any other welfare program.  Each month, this leaves countless people without the products many of us take for granted.

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Just as much as food is needed in your local pantries, so are health-related products. Many pantries encourage the community to drop off menstrual health products such as tampons and pads to their drop-off locations.

Goshen Student Starts Menstrual Product Drive for Food Pantry

One local high school student has taken it upon themselves to assist in supplying the need for feminine products in Goshen, New York. Rox Aclin is a senior at Goshen High School currently running a menstrual product drive for the Goshen Food Pantry. From now until June 15th, Rox is collecting pads, tampons, and menstrual cups for people in our community who struggle to afford them. Items can be dropped off in the pink boxes at:

• Goshen High School,
• Goshen Middle School,
• The Goshen Public Library,
• Fellowship Hall at the Goshen Presbyterian Church.

The Goshen Food Pantry